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Monkey hangers in 17th century Barcelona

Posted: June 7th 2009 20:45. Last modified: November 3rd 2009 07:31

Xenophobic atavism in the 1640 Reapers Revolt.

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Categories: Empire, Empires, rulers and warfare, Monsters, War

Lenin cult in Santa Coloma, Barcelona

Posted: July 9th 2008 13:02. Last modified: November 23rd 2009 19:06

The Lenin-loving Joves Comunistes are the miniscule youth-wing of the increasingly insignificant alphabet soup of confused post-communists headed up by the bed-hopping Catalan regional interior councillor, Joan Saura, whose police force shot and almost killed the Barcelona municipal police chief last week. (“Youth” in Spanish leftist politics means anyone who wears jeans; most of them [...]

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Categories: Les bourgeois, Theatre

Top 10 Catalan cities

Posted: August 7th 2004 16:25. Last modified: February 27th 2009 22:06

An example of the complete bollocks with which travel sites think you’ll be satisfied is to be found on Travelcreek, which tells us that:
Gerona is the second largest city in the province of Catalunya after Barcelona and is dissected by the Onyar river.
Leaving aside the fact that Catalonia isn’t a province, Girona hasn’t been on [...]

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  • March 19 1840 Se coloca la primera piedra para formar la plaza del mercado de la BocarĂ­a en el terreno que fue iglesia de S. JosĂ©.

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